Man charged with exposing himself in Upper, Lower Providence has court date

UPPER PROVIDENCE ≠≠ó A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for the 29-year-old Lower Providence man charged with indecent exposure in seven recent incidents.

Piyush Kumar Agarwal, of the 400 block of Mill Grove Drive, will go before District Justice Cathleen Kelly Rebar at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday.

Judge Rebar held a preliminary arraignment for Agarwal on Saturday and set bail at $75,000 cash bail. Agarwal was released Sunday after posting bail, said Lower Providence Police Chief Francis Carroll.

Agarwal was arrested Saturday afternoon by Lower Providence police and charged with one count of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor of the first degree, because it involved a victim under the age of 16, eight counts of indecent exposure, misdemeanors in the second degree and nine counts of open lewdness, a misdemeanor of the third degree, police said.

Police identified seven separate incidents with a total of nine victims dating back to the first incident reported on April 6.

A Lower Providence detective observed Agarwal standing outside of his vehicle at 3:40 p.m., Saturday at the trailhead of the Perkiomen Trail at the intersection of Lower Indian Head Road and Upper Indian Head Road in Upper Providence, said Lower Providence Police Chief Francis Carroll. The detective observed that the top button of the subjectís pants were unbuttoned. Police observed that Agarwal matched the physical description of the suspect in several of the incidents and that his vehicle also matched the description of the vehicle described by victims.

Police approached Agarwal and subsequently took him into custody.

Anyone with additional information regarding these incidents is requested to contact the Lower Providence police at 610-539-5900 or the Upper Providence police at 610-933-7899.